The Sacred Rights of Conscience: Selected Readings on Religious Liberty and Church–State Relations in the American Founding
Supreme Court decisions about church and state no longer interpret and create constitutional law so much as majority and minority opinions maneuver for position in the culture war over what the late Richard John Neuhaus famously described as “religion in the public square.” Both sides in that jurisp...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2013
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A journal of church and state
Year: 2013, Volume: 55, Issue: 3, Pages: 572-574 |
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| Summary: | Supreme Court decisions about church and state no longer interpret and create constitutional law so much as majority and minority opinions maneuver for position in the culture war over what the late Richard John Neuhaus famously described as “religion in the public square.” Both sides in that jurisprudential controversy agree that the Establishment and Free Exercise Clauses of the First Amendment must be interpreted in light of the early American religious and constitutional history, but no one among the current members of the Court has plunged deeply enough into that history to fashion stable church–state jurisprudence for the twenty-first century. |
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| ISSN: | 2040-4867 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jcs/cst038 |